Word: butted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The extensibility of rubber is usually confused with its elasticity. Rubber is one of the most inelastic of substances. An absolutely elastic substance is one which returns to its original size and shape after stretching. Rubber does not do that. Pull a piece of rubber, release it, measure it. It...
Rubber is a complex hydrocarbon. Fundamental in its composition is isoprene. The organic chemist can make isoprene from such common stuffs as turpentine, petroleum, starch, coal tar or acetylene. News of goldenrod as a likely rubber source gave the casual daily press opportunity to picture farmers sneezing as they harvested...
In Washington, D. C., Rosie Giles, 27, who weighs 250 Ibs., struck one Ellen Commer, 13, in the jaw because she was sitting on the Giles bench in the House of Prayer revival tent. A patrolman arrested Rosie but she sat down, refused to budge, had to be removed by...
"Louis XI, the medieval, knew all there is to know about efficiency: the value and power of Money, and its use in buying men, the importance of the single personal command, the importance of time." He was the biggest big executive of his day, a man who spent his life...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others...